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concurrence

/kənˈkʌrəns/

C1CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister

Law noun

The requirement that the guilty act and the guilty mind coincide in time.

Without concurrence of act and intent, the later resolve could not convert the accident into assault.

Similar: contemporaneity, coincidence

Topic: Criminal law in Legal English

Business noun

A second partner's independent agreement with the conclusions reached on an engagement.

For listed clients, an engagement-quality reviewer must signal concurrence before the opinion is released.

Similar: agreement

Topic: Accounting in Business English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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